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Presenter: Maria L. Geisinger, DDS, MS
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: HALEON
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
This high energy webinar breaks down what we know (and don’t yet know) about cigarettes, vapes, and cannabis use, translating emerging evidence into practical guidance for everyday practice. You’ll explore how these products affect periodontal and peri implant health, how to manage and counsel users in the dental chair, and how to communicate clearly about cessation, harm reduction, and oral health risks in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Learning Objectives
- Review the current evidence on how tobacco, nicotine delivery systems, and cannabis affect periodontal, peri implant, and overall oral health.
- Discuss the latest epidemiologic patterns in cigarette smoking, e cigarette use, and cannabis consumption across age groups in the U.S. and globally.
- Identify the unique considerations and treatment challenges when caring for patients who smoke, vape, or use cannabis.
- Provide clear, evidence based guidance on cessation strategies, including the potential risks and limitations of e cigarettes as cessation tools.
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Presenter: Grant R. Smith, DDS
Tuesday, November 24, 2026
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: OraPharma
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
When dentists empower RDHs with modern diagnostics and therapies, their impact extends far beyond routine cleanings. They can identify systemic risks earlier, reduce disease burden, restore facial form and function, and enhance patients’ confidence and overall well-being. The result is better clinical outcomes, fewer health complications, and more satisfied, loyal patients.
Learning Objectives
- Connect each technology to a clear patient outcome: improved periodontal health, reduced systemic inflammation, better sleep/breathing, fewer cariologic events, improved facial aesthetics, and reduced anxiety or harmful behaviors.
- Demonstrate non surgical workflows that turn diagnostics into motivating patient conversations that increase acceptance and adherence.
- Explain how salivary testing and findings from new imaging technologies translate into actionable medical referrals and measurable systemic‑health improvements.
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Presenter: Sara Karlin, DDS and Ellen Karlin, MMSc, RDN, LDN, FADA
Thursday, December 10, 2026
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: United Concordia
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
This webinar covers evidence-based nutrition strategies to help cancer patients manage oral health challenges associated with cancer therapy.
Learning Objectives
- Describe dietary and lifestyle strategies that dental professionals and patients can adopt to reduce cancer risk.
- Identify common treatment-related oral health complications in cancer patients.
- Explore scientifically supported dietary strategies to help patients minimize oral and systemic complications associated with cancer treatment.
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Presenter: Stephanie Nunez, DDS, PhD
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: HALEON
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
Explore the underlying causes of xerostomia, its impact on caries risk, and evidence-based strategies for managing dry mouth to help prevent tooth decay and improve patient outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss how saliva is produced.
- Determine the causes of xerostomia.
- Review caries reduction strategies in patients with dry mouth.
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Presenter: Natalie Hill, RDH
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: OraPharma
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
This webinar serves as a hygienist's practical guide to a two-visit new patient experience, using risk assessment, disclosing, and modern adjuncts so every patient understands their own mouth before treatment begins.
Learning Objectives
- Design a two-appointment new patient experience that separates data collection and diagnosis from treatment, with the hygienist working as a co-diagnostician.
- Combine periodontal, caries, bacterial, airway, and systemic findings into one risk profile, and use it to choose between prophylaxis, gingivitis therapy, and non-surgical periodontal therapy.
- Use patient education and modern adjuncts to improve case acceptance and outcomes. This covers answering "Will it hurt?" and "But I brush and floss," explaining the oral-systemic link, and using disclosing, GBT, povidone-iodine, desiccants, and lasers alongside thorough debridement.
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Presenter: Sausha Toghranegar, DMD, MS
Thursday, January 28, 2027
7:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. CT • 5:00 p.m. MT • 4:00 p.m. PT)
Provider: Conexiant Education
Commercial Supporter: Impladent
COST: $0.00
CDE CREDITS: 1 Live/Interactive
DESCRIPTION:
Every extraction is a fork in the road: let the ridge collapse, or step in and defend it. Suit up for Quest for Vital Bone—a practical, case-driven webinar on socket grafting for clinicians who want predictable ridge preservation without overcomplicating it. The villain is ridge resorption, and it never takes a day off. Periodontist Dr. Sausha Toghranegar covers what really happens to a socket after extraction, when preservation is worth the fight, and why the real quest isn't a filled socket—it's vital, vascularized bone that can carry an implant for decades. Attendees will get to know a unique bioactive composite graft material that simplifies routine socket grafting with no membrane required, then level up to the tougher sockets where a graft and a membrane need to team up—how the membrane options differ and the handling details that make them predictable. Leave with a simple decision framework and a repeatable workflow, ready to deploy Monday morning. Cape optional.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the biologic events that follow tooth extraction and identify when ridge preservation is indicated to protect a future implant site.
- Explain the properties of a bioactive composite graft material and apply a simplified, membrane-free protocol for routine socket grafting.
- Recognize when a socket calls for both a graft and a barrier membrane, and apply a step-by-step workflow for membrane selection, placement, stabilization, closure, and exposure management.